How does a NAT (Network Address Translation) work ?

[bernie75]

Can somebody explain me, how NAT works ?
If several PC are behind a NAT and we got a receive packet from the outside world(see only one IP and MAC), then how does the NAT knows, to which request the packet needs to delivered ?

Bernie

 

[mads_nam]

Re: how does nat work ?

This is a good link which explains NAT very well:

https://computer.howstuffworks.com/nat.htm